18th November 2018.
This Sri Selliamman temple is a part of the new Bus stand,
of Vellore on the banks of river Palar. This Sri Selliamman is part of a
Saptamatrikas and here Chamundi is
worshiped as Sri Selliamman. On both sides Veerabhadra and Vinayagar. Usually, Sri Selliamman
is a Village or water body guarding
deity and she will be having a ferocious look. Selliamman in the temple is in a sitting sukhasana posture with Jawala mudi, holding damru, soolam, pasam, and
Kapalam in the 4 hands.
The Temple faces East with a sanctum and a
mukha mandapam. The temple is about 8 feet below the road level. Muniswaran, Vinayagar, and Nagar are on the back side of the Amman sanctum. Under a neem tree baked terracotta
statues of elephants with man sitting on
it were offered by the devotees. A bell
tower with the old bell is on the left side entrance. The sthala vrukshas are
Bamboo, Athi and Neem tree. It was said that the original temple was very old 1000 years old, but no evidences are found in the temple. The
temple was renovated in 1983 by TKB Sundaram, a bus owner as per the instruction of Amman who told this
in his dream.
LEGENDS
As per the legend the temple was built by the two
brothers namely Bommi & Thimmi who flooded to Vellore from Karnataka
fearing the killing of their cousins. The king allotted land for the temple
and their stay. These two brothers chased out the dacoits from the village with
the grace of Sri Selliamman. Seeing this, the villagers also started worshiping Sri Selliamman as their kula Deivam.
A large number of devotees turned on Fridays and
Silver Chariot will be pulled around the sanctum. Devotees also tie swings on
the bamboo tree for getting a child. It was told that Special poojas will be
conducted to this Amman before any celebration at Sri Jalakandeswarar Temple in
the fort. Devotees believe that Sri Selliamman
will give solutions for all their problems and will never return empty-handed.
TEMPLE
TIMINGS:
The temple will be kept open between 07.00 hrs to
20.00 hrs.
CONTACT DETAILS:
The following numbers +91 416 2246969, +91 9442379290, and +91 8015333328
may be contacted for further details.
HOW TO
REACH:
The Temple
is on one side of the new bus terminus.
Town buses are available from the Old Bus stand.
The nearest Railway station is Katpadi about 5 KM.
Sthala Vrukshas, Bamboo, Athi and Neem.
Terracotta / suduman images offered by the devotees
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---
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